Congress（国会）包括the House（众议院）和参议员（the Senate）。除了立法之外，还与政府budget相关。
老夏考研“每日一题”选自《华盛顿邮报》，原文文章标题为“Congress is overlooking yet another crisis in our legal immigration system”（国会正忽视了我们合法移民体系的另一场危机）。
今天给的这种题型，如果能够做对，一定给自己恨恨点赞哟。 ......
【题目】As used in this text, “growing crisis” refers to______
[A] reduced green cards.
[B]closed pathways.
[C] illegal immigration.
[D] undue delays.
【试题】
①With so many immigrants crossing the border illegally, Congress is overlooking another growing crisis in America’s legal immigration system. ②The central finding of a new study this week shows that legal immigrants are waiting longer than ever before for the chance to apply for green cards. ③If Congress wants immigrants to follow legal pathways, it should start by fixing the ones that already exist. ④These waits were not caused by bureaucratic delays in processing applications and petitions, though such delays have worsened.⑤Rather, the increasing delay is a result of the arbitrary annual limits on green cards that Congress last created in 1990 — 226,000 for close relatives of citizens and legal permanent residents, and 140,000 for workers and investors (as well as their spouses and minor children).
【参考译文】
①With so many immigrants crossing the border illegally, Congress is overlooking another growing crisis in America’s legal immigration system. 由于有如此多的移民非法越境，国会正忽视了美国合法移民体系中另一个日益严重的危机。
②The central finding of a new study this week shows that legal immigrants are waiting longer than ever before for the chance to apply for green cards. 本周一项新研究的主要发现表明，合法移民等待申请绿卡的时间比以往任何时候都要长。
③If Congress wants immigrants to follow legal pathways, it should start by fixing the ones that already exist. 如果国会希望移民遵循合法途径，应该从修正现有途径开始。
④These waits were not caused by bureaucratic delays in processing applications and petitions, though such delays have worsened. 这些等待不是由于处理申请和请愿时的官僚主义延误造成的，尽管这种延误已经恶化。
⑤Rather, the increasing delay is a result of the arbitrary annual limits on green cards that Congress last created in 1990 — 226,000 for close relatives of citizens and legal permanent residents, and 140,000 for workers and investors (as well as their spouses and minor children). 准确的说，越来越多延误的原因是美国国会上一次在1990年制定的武断的绿卡年度限制 —— 即美国公民的近亲和合法永久居民的22.6万张绿卡，为工人和投资者(以及他们的配偶和未成年子女)发放14万张绿卡。
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【53】“移民太难了”！
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